underprivileged

His lifelong dedication to helping underprivileged and at-risk children was at least as responsible for his enshrinement and for the many humanitarian awards he received.

In a 2017 essay in the New York Times, Vance wrote about identifying parts of himself in former Presidents Clinton and Obama, who also grew up in underprivileged environments, largely raised by their grandparents.

“It gave me unbelievable drive,” he says of the underprivileged circumstances in which he was raised by a single mom, a onetime aspiring actor who worked as a nightclub promoter in the 1980s London scene.

Coming from an underprivileged background, Borja feels limited by a life with seemingly little opportunity, and goes along with his family's wishes to begin with.

Half of the seats are reserved for underprivileged students.